Furniture assembling , Birthday Parties ,Ultrasounds , and Mothers day

So I know I haven't posted in a while . In the past two weeks we haven't done a whole lot. Well not to me anyways . Dan helped my Aunt with afew things ,we had a friends birthday party to go to ,an ultrasound and Mothers Day .Other then that it's been a typical few weeks .

While Dan helped my Aunt I did my best to keep this house functional.Which included curbing Avianna's tantrums; which are worse when Dans not around.The one morning her fit lasted two hours .No matter what I did or offered she wouldn't stop . Afew times I went to my parents house .A few times Icleaned my moms house {I usually pick the kids toys up no matter what ) but since mom broke her finger/arm I decided to do her floors and finish her dishes the one night ,

The birthday party was fun the whole family got to get out and socialize with a few friends we all have't seen in years.The kids blew off some energy and then came the sugar rush . All my friends have now met the twins minus maybe 5 people.

My ultrasound went well minus what they can't tell you.Baby is head down and everything looks good . We had originally planned on not finding out the sex  but ended caving .We have planned to not tell anyone minus a handful of people until a later date .

Mother's Day went well I slept in which if you ask Dan is nothing special. Which is true most days because he usually does bring Raiden to the bus stop and then I get up just before the twins. It'sa really bad habbit of mine,especially during the winter months(which just finished in April around here) Also I'm really bad for this while pregnant . So once Igot out of bed and had my brunch Igot my first school gift from Raiden. It was a card with a hand print flower and he made a picture of his mommy . Late we went to dinner where my sister gave me card .

No more physio ,Park,and Sub dinner

Hi,so what's new? The twins were discharged from the Children's Centre meaning they no longer are in physiotheropy .We are still having at home meeting with the development specialists though.small victories. 

Today was nice did some running around . The big kids have gone to the park with Dan Zoiee's napping and Daniel's sitting having aconversation with me. I'm going to get stuff ready for dinner . Subs are on tonight's menu .Anything where they have some sort of choice in how it's made seems to be a hit around here.

Brain development and attachment, dinner at mom's and Discipline .

    Hi  so today I slept most the morning away ,while Dan brought Raiden to the bus and the other three didn't wake up till he got back . I don't know why but I've been really off today .Once I did wake up in the afternoon sometime ( thank you Dan ) We  cleaned and had an appointment with our home visitor. While she was here we did a little quiz thing about babies/children and attachment.  She also told us about this study they did in Romania involving children in orphanages and brain development. It's actually really sad .Here is an article on it . But basically they found that these children had smaller brains and less gray matter then a child who wasn't "institutionalized" and that  the y are actually more likely to have disabilities because of these things. I found it interesting so I thought I'd share.

After that Dan picked Raiden up and I met them with Avianna and the twins at my mom's where we had dinner and dessert and hung out with my younger nieces. Most of us ended up with a head ache because of all the noise the kids made but it was fun.

  Raiden got in trouble again for physical contact at school . I don't really know what to do about it anymore everything we try seems to be in one ear and out the other . I'm going to try discussing a few things with his teachers maybe and see if we can work together to get this stuff all figured out . Heres to finding something that works in the discipline department and soon .

Laundry Machines, Dinner , and Makeup

So today Started out rough , I woke up with a head ache and some how Raiden seemed to wake up super early after going to bed at 11:30 ish ( which is normal and I should be used to this by now but I'm not ) After we woke up and I managed to get out of my grumpy pants . I started the normal daily stuff launrdy ,dress children ect. Then my mom called and needed help moving a washer (might have been a dryer I don't remember) Any way so she needed help moving a laundry machine of some sort and called Dan to help carry it .So off he went .

By now it was around lunch so I fed the kids put the children for a nap and quiet time ( for the none napper ) He still fell asleep .And then finished laundry and got everyone ready to go to Grandma's ( she had invited us to dinner when she picked Dan up ) which is normal for Sunday .

When Dan got home he brought Raiden ,Avianna and Zoiee out side to play while i got myself ready ( D.J . was still sleeping ) After I was ready and got everything together to go  I brought D.J. out with the rest of the monkey's. Raiden decided he wanted to ride his bike which wasn't a problem .So everyone grabbed their sweaters and or coats and we headed out the door . Then as usual  Avianna had to use the potty . So finally we start heading to grandma's . We got all most all the way there (we were literally at the corner of my mother's street ) and we get a phone call asking if we're coming .  lol

Dinner goes well except Raiden's tired from his bike ride . After dinner we spent some time as a family .Having tea, babbling,laughing at the babies and kids . then Avianna goes into Aunty Adriane's room and finds a mirror and Aunty gives her some old make up so she can play . This all gets transferred to the living room where Dan sits with her to try and encourage her to play makeup . at which point she decides she doesn't want to do her make up . She wants to do Daddy's makeup . So thats what happened . After she was done Daddy's make up she did her own . There were lots of laughs involved

                                The two of them after Avianna was done doing their makeup .
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Lazy Saturday !!

 Hi so today was relaxing ..and not so eventful.. Frank got the runs if you seriously want to read about it you can do so here. The older two hung out with Grandpa for a while and Dan went to his sisters . So it was the twins and I we didn't do much just played for a while .Then I fed them and put them for a nap . While they were napping I looked up some homemade cleaning products . That I can make myself and will hopefully save some money doing so . I got them from here. The trick will now be to convince Dan that it will save us money. I also managed to do some laundry .

Oh and Derek came over and our on again off again leak is finally fixed ( I think ) I haven't actually tested it . But lets cross our fingers and hope so . I'm SO beyond done with this leak thing . Oh and he  finally found the piece he needs for our tub YAY!! it was like $3 at Canadian Tire . So much for spending like 30-40  for some one to make a piece for the tub . Oh well .

Now to figure out where Dan wondered off to and make dinner .